1 3/4 inches? Seriously people, that’s nothing. A dusting of snow and the town shuts down. We have a special name for that much snow up here in Michigan. We call it “late October”.
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It’s a lot down South. Most smaller cities don’t have salt trucks or plows. The snow is usually very wet and sticks to the tires. The more you drive the bigger and stickier it gets. We don’t get enough of it down here to invest in snow tires or snow plows. An inch of snow cripples us back in the hills. Most of the time, as soon as it starts the schools let out and businesses close down. Two inches of snow and we are ordered off the roads by the local law enforcement.
Had an uncle from Toronto...He moved to E TN when he retired...First snow, he said he’d show us southern hillbillies how to drive...Two blocks and he spun out his car...He said, “This stuff is WET!!! It’s slick!!!!”
He thought it would be dry snow like up north...*ROFL*
It’s not the snow that’s the problem. It’s the layer of ice underneath the snow on the roads. People are sliding on ice, not on snow.
You must not be in the UP then. There they call it “late August”.
It’s not the snow, it’s the ice. All the snide comments overlook the fact that we’re suffering a serious ice storm: temperatures went a hair under freezing, snow fell & landed on warm roads, melted, then cooled & froze making the whole state’s roadways a sheet of ice.
I’m from NY. We had ice storms like this there too, with pretty much the same results save for the experience to know when to go home in time.